Stock-car



(No Model.)

J. WESTF'A'LL.

' STOGK GAR.

No. 364,876. Patented June 14, 1887.

.Ffiyl VIE v WITNESSES: INVENTOR: 0% I @MW BY ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W'ESTFALL, OF LAVVRENOE, KANSAS.

f STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 364,876, dated June 14,1887.

Application filed February 18, 1887. Serial No. 228,100. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, JoI-IuWEsrFALL, of Lawrence, in the county ofDouglas and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Stock-Oars, of which the fol-.

lowing is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved stock-car fortransporting all kinds of live stock in a more comfortable and humanemanner; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts for watering and sprinkling the stock and for feeding andseparating the same,which devices may be so arranged as to permit thecar to be also used for other purposes.

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of the car, and Fig. 2 isavertical transverse section of the car.

In the drawings, A represents the stockcar, having just beneath the roofat each end a water-tank, B, provided with an in1et-'pipe,

13, extending out through the end of the car and terminating in afunnel-shaped upwardlyturned mouth, into which water may be deliveredfrom a railroad-tank to fill the cartanks. The water-tanksB do notextend the full width of the car, but have a stop-cock andhose-connection between the end and the side of the car for transferringwater from the tanks to four (more or less) troughs, C, which aredetachably arranged longitudinally along the sides of the car on eachside of the door, and are hung upon trunnions a at their ends, so thatthe troughs may be turned to throw their contents outside the car incleauv ing them.

Communicating with the watertanks are several horizontal spray-pipes, D,controlled by valves D on the top of the car, whereby a spray of watermay be allowed to fall on the car to wash or cool off the stock, andespecially hogs, in hot weather.

E are hay-racks, which are secured to the sides of the car in aninclined position, and which are so hinged as to permit them to beturned out of the way when the cars are used for other purposes.

F are partitions for separating the stock, which partitions are arrangedtransversely to the car, and are also made removable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1 Thestock-ear herein described, consisting of the combination of thecar-body having tank B in the top of the same,arranged transversely atthe ends, and having funnel-shaped inlet-pipe B, extending out throughthe ends of the car and opening upwardly, spray-pipes D, with valves D,the hay-racks E, hinged upon the side of the car at the bottom, thepivoted and tilting troughs G, and the partition-gates F, substantiallyas shown and described.

JOHN VVESTFALL. [L. s.]

Witnesses:

GEo. B. EDGAR, M. A. EDGAR.

